CVE-2001-1270

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

Directory traversal vulnerability in the console version of PKZip (pkzipc) 4.00 and earlier allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction with the -rec (recursive) option via a .. (dot dot) attack on the archived files.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the console version of PKZip (pkzipc) 4.00 and earlier allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction with the -rec (recursive) option via a .. (dot dot) attack on the archived files.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 23 years ago

2001-07-12 04:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:26:00

Affected Software

PKWare Inc. PKZip

References

20010712 SECURITY.NNOV: directory traversal and path globing in multiple archivers

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

http://www.security.nnov.ru/advisories/archdt.asp

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

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